And as always, thanks for watching.
You
Thank y'all for coming to the fast Baptist Church for the evening service
If you'll please find your seats
Thank you so much for coming to the conference we're actually singing songs out of our special
Handouts and so we're gonna be singing again one of the songs to sing this morning. My God is so great
And we've got some motions there if you kiddos want to join me on the motions
We'll be singing my God is so great there on the first
My
God is so big so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do
My God is so big so strong and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do
He made the trees he made the seas he made the elephants, too
God is so big
So my
My God is so great so strong and so mighty
My god is so great so strong and so mighty there's nothing my god
The mountains are his the valleys are his
My god is so great so strong and so mighty
Very good singing let's go ahead and pray Thank You Heavenly Father for our church
Thank you so much for this conference that we've had I pray that you would just help all of the families to be encouraged
For all the young people and for everyone that was in attendance to want to continue serving you and to keep fighting the spiritual fight
In Jesus name we pray. Amen
We're gonna sing another one in our handouts, it's a new one ho ho ho ho Zanna
It's pretty simple it's pretty easy song to pick up and so we're gonna go ahead and sing this
It actually does it two times three on our handout. So
ho ho ho Zanna
Oh
I
Got the joy of the Lord
I've got the joy of the Lord. All right, let's sing a little bit slower. All right, so we'll do one little slower ready? Oh
I've got the joy. Let's so you get slower. You ready?
All right, let's see if we can do it faster you can do the faster with me y'all ready
All right, let's go even faster, I don't know y'all are rushing me but we're gonna go really fast. Are you ready?
Good singing. All right. I really like that
So I'll go through a few announcements again, thank you coming to steadfast Baptist Church, we've got our bulletin
We're going through Jonah chapter 2
So you kiddos memorize verse 5 and you can get a treat on our Wednesday service on the insides or service and so many times
Make sure sending in your church stats to our so many captains and lieutenants on the right
We have a list of expecting ladies. Please be in prayer for them. We have our prayer list
upcoming events October 20th, we have a fall swap and that's just basically if you have any items of value that you
Don't really need but you'd like to see if someone else would like you can donate them
And then also if you are just looking for something you can just check out what was donated
And if you want something you can have it. It's complete free swap
That's gonna be led by miss Naim if you'd like to ask any questions
Also, October 31st is the Texas chili cook-off
6 p.m. And then of course no fillers
You could look up official Texas chili competitions and stuff usually gives you an idea, but it's just like no rice. No beans
No noodles, so it's just basically things like that. So
Some people say they put chocolate in their chili. I don't know, you know, whatever but
That is that is how we play around here. Also November 16th is Miami
Solany marathon and
That's pretty much all I have
I just want to thank again a lot of you guys have really helped with this conference a lot of volunteers
A lot of people have helped with things that I didn't even ask and so, you know, I really appreciate that
I really appreciate you parents bring your kids to something like this. It's been a lot of fun
it was fun, you know killing your kids on Friday and
Helping them learn how to spell on Saturday and of course, you know
Just getting to throw candy at them and stuff and it's definitely
It's definitely a blessing for me to get to do something like this
And so I really appreciate you guys and thank you so much for coming and being a part of our conference huge success
We actually tied our attendance record this morning. We had 241 and so
Had a lot of people in service and really appreciate that and so definitely
We had 245. Okay, the numbers just keep multiplying. I can't even you know, whatever. It's hard to keep up sometimes, but
Yeah, we had a great attendance Sunday morning. And so really appreciate you guys coming here and participating with us
With that we're gonna sing our third song and we're gonna do the one in our handout where the spirit blows
So if you kids want to get that one out
I'm still gonna do well actually before we get to that work. I'm gonna do the sword drill stuff and the Bible drill
So I'm gonna ask a few trivia questions. We still have some prizes left. We have about 18. So I'm gonna try and do
nine
Trivia questions and nine sword drills so we can try to get the rest of these prizes out there
So I'm gonna ask questions. The first three questions are only for eight years old and under
So if you're eight years old or under
If I ask the question and you know it you can just raise your hand real high real fast
And I'll call on you if you know the answer some people are near the answer
Okay. All right. I'm just
You have to wait until I'm done with the question. All right, so here's my first question
How many
Commandments that God write down good job. Come on down
Who built the ark yep, come on down
The Holy Ghost descended upon Jesus in the shape of what animal
Yep, come on down
All
Right. So now it the 13 and under are able to answer to okay
So all the young kids can as well, but if you're 13 or under you can answer
Who was the first person born?
Eli
Nope Elijah
Nope Julep, nope
Yep, come on down I
Guess it's tricky Adam was just created. He wasn't born. Okay, but y'all I was I was trying to be careful with that one
All right second question
What town?
Was Jesus born in?
Yep, come on down
Name one of Daniel's friends
Nope
Yep Shadrach, come on down
All right, this is for any teenager and under yep
Who was Solomon's son that ruled after him
Nope
Yep
Nope yeah, there you go. All right ray of bone
How many chapters are in Jeremiah nope
Nope
Nope yeah, there you go
He was careful and how he answered that one, all right what book in the Bible is
After the book of Amos
Yep, good job. Good job. That was a good one. All right
So we'll do a couple sword drills as well. All right, so if you got your Bibles out
This is gonna be eight and under
So if you're eight years old and you can turn to it you can get it or if you can quote it you can get
It all right
Mark 115
You got a hard one
Yeah, go ahead
Yes
Amen good job repent you believe the gospel that's important one. There you go
All right, next one is Romans 3 23
Nailed it
Good job. Good job. All right, John 1 1
Good
Job you did really good on that one. All right 13 13 and under can also now do it
Jude verse 1
Good job
All right, James 210
Good job. Good job
Malachi 310
Come on down
Malachi 36
There you go, sometimes it's good to be say book, you know, all right anybody can do these last three, all right
All right, your Bibles already open
Leviticus 20 chapter 1 verse 1
Oh
Good job nailed it. Come on down
Luke 2 verse 3
Oh
There you go, come on down
You can pick
Which one
All right
This is the coveted possession, all right
Matthew 28 verse 18
Amen
All right, here you go you get both of these nice, yeah
All right, we're gonna go ahead and sing where the spirit blows in our special handouts thanks to everybody who participated
Really appreciate it
So the way this song goes is at the in the chorus part says where the spirit blows we will go
Go go go where the spirit blows and then that last one where it says we will go
I want you to give me a nice shout on that last go. All right, so
We're gonna sing it all the way through and at the last go we'll give it a nice shout you kids ready for me
All right
On the first Jesus told me over land and sea
Inside
Oh
Good singing if you will turn in your Bibles
We're gonna go to Matthew chapter number 19
We'll follow along as we read the entire chapter
They'll pass the offering plate
Matthew chapter number 19
You
Matthew chapter 19 the Bible says and it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these sayings
He departed from Galilee and came into the coast of Judea beyond Jordan and great multitudes followed him
And he healed them there
The Pharisees also came unto him tempting him and saying unto him is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for?
Every cause and he answered and said unto them have you not read that he which made them at the beginning made the male and
female and
Said for this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh
Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh what therefore God have joined together let not man put asunder
They say unto him. Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement and to put her away?
He
Sayeth unto them Moses because of the hardness of your heart suffered you to put away your wives
But from the beginning it was not so and I say unto you whosoever shall put away his wife
Accept it be for fornication and shall marry another committed adultery and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery
His disciples say unto him if the case of the man be so with his wife
It is not good to marry
But he said unto them all men cannot receive this saying save they to whom it is given
For there are some eunuchs which were so born from their mother's womb and there are some eunuchs
Which were made eunuchs of men and there be eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake
He that is able to receive it let him receive it
Then were there brought unto him little children that he should put his hands on them and pray and the disciples rebuked them
But Jesus said suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven
And he laid his hands on them and departed thence and
Behold one came and said unto him good master
What good things shall I do that I may have eternal life and he said unto him why callest thou me good
There is none good, but one that is God, but if thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments
He saith unto him which Jesus said thou shalt do no murder thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not steal
Thou shalt not bear false witness honor thy father and thy mother and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself
The young man said unto him all these things have I kept from my youth up what lack I yet
Jesus said unto him if thou wilt be perfect go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in
Heaven and come and follow me
But when the young man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions
Then said Jesus unto his disciples
Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven and again
I say unto you it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
Than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed saying who then can be saved
But Jesus beheld them and said unto them with men. This is impossible
But with God all things are possible then answered Peter and said unto him behold
We have forsaken all and followed thee what shall we have therefore and Jesus said unto them?
Verily I say unto you that ye which have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his
glory
Ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones
judging the twelve tribes of Israel and
Everyone that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake
Shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life
But many there are for but many that are first shall be last and the last shall be first
Let us pray dear Heavenly Father. I thank you for this conference
I thank you for all the children and the foundation that they have laid. I pray that they would build on that foundation
Please bless pastor Shelley as he preaches in Jesus name. Amen
Man, I want to go back to verse 13 and the Bible says then they were brought unto him little children
That he should put his hands on them and pray and the disciples rebuked them
But Jesus said suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven
and he laid his hands on them and
Departed thence and so in Jesus Christ's ministry
He had little children coming unto him and the disciples didn't want Jesus to be burdened
With little children or have to deal with little children
And so they're trying to tell the children to get away from the Lord Jesus Christ when he was here
But Jesus Christ said to suffer
little children and notice again
He didn't say that they're not a burden. He didn't say that it's not some level of discomfort
He literally says to suffer and that means to allow of course
But in a sense we can also think of this as being something that obviously little children are a little bit of work
Obviously little children can be a little bit of an inconvenience
But Jesus Christ is willing to suffer the little children and I think a church like ours
It's important that we have this doctrine and that we have this idea because we're a family integrated church
And so we have the children in the service with us. Whereas most churches today
They put all of their children either in the nursery and some kind of a Sunday school class
Youth kids programs and they really just separate all of us within the building
Whereas our church we specifically try to keep everyone together as much as possible
Of course, we have mother baby rooms and other options and stuff like that cry rooms
But we do also try to encourage for people to have their children in the service
And so I want to preach about the idea of suffering little children
Now that being said I think that there are some tips that we can have to help encourage us to have more
Successful outcomes as far as kids being in the service. And so I just want to give you I basically have seven points
I want to make I'm gonna go through them pretty quickly
but I just want to give some tips of how I think that we can encourage the youth to do better in the service and
This is my idea is that I also will bear your burden a little bit
Okay this evening because you have to bear the burden of suffering with your children
But what I want to do is I want to have some volunteers sit up here with me
During during this now, wait a second. Okay, you have to listen to what you have to do
I'm gonna take ten volunteers at a time. Okay
You can come sit on this you're gonna sit on the stage, but you have to be perfectly still
You had to be perfectly quiet and you have to pay attention
If you can get through two points that I make you can get some candy afterwards
All right, if you're not still if you're not paying attention
Then I'm gonna just send you back to your seat
Okay, so you kids know what I'm saying? All right, so I'm gonna put some candy up here and I'm gonna get ten
Ten helpers for a moment, but you have to be sitting on the stage
You have to be sitting still and you have to be quiet
Now, of course, you can bring your Bible and pay attention while we're going through the points
You have to sit there for two points. So I'm gonna look at this section first. I have ten volunteers who raise your hand
All right, come on one two three four five six seven eight
Just sit down here on the stage, yep, come on down you want to sit do you want to okay you can sit down
Come on down nine. Do I have one more over here?
Come on down. All right
So, let's see if you can make it through two points for me, okay
All right. Here's my point when I go to Ephesians chapter 6 if you would go to Ephesians chapter number 6
my first tip and
encouraging children to do
Well in a service and suffer them in the service is for them to have a Bible
Give them a Bible to have while they're in the service now the Bible says in Ephesians chapter number 6 it says in verse number 12
Well, let's let's do verse 11 actually
Put on the whole armor of God
That you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for wrestle not against flesh and blood but against
Principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness and high places
Wherefore taken you the whole armor of God
He may be able to stand in the evil day and having done all the stands stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth
And having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace
above all taking the shield of faith
wherewith you should be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and
The sword of the Spirit
Which is the Word of God now what's interesting about the arm of God is it's it's mostly all just metaphors
I mean we're talking about a belt. That's not a real belt
It's simply talking about having integrity truth being honest
We have the breastplate of righteousness the idea of having good Christian moral character and following God's commandments
We have the helmet of salvation
Which is an example of us being saved we have the shield of faith to quench all those fiery darts of the wicked
you know the devil is gonna throw really fiery darts at us and
The only thing that can get through us is faith not by our sight
But then he has one other thing the sword of the Spirit
Which is the Word of God and so when we come to church we need to have all those attributes
Characteristics with us, but we should also have the sword with us
And this is our only real offensive weapon as described in the armor of God
This is what we use to wage war this is what we do to claim victory the rest of those things are a defense
This is offense is the Word of God is a Bible and we should train our youth
To have this as their weapon and to use it
And I think it will help just practically speaking because when you have a Bible you know hey
I need to use this I need to look at it
It's gonna help me pay attention when you don't really have anything in your hand. You're not really doing anything
It's easier to be distracted
It's easier to maybe not pay attention and so I would encourage you
Parents you know if you want to have a more successful outcome in church is to give your kids a Bible
So now we're through point one you guys did too good all right, so you just got to do one more point
You think you can do it with me all right?
I feel like y'all are doing really good. Okay. Go to first Timothy chapter number four first Timothy chapter number four
It's important to have a Bible and why is it important to have a Bible well this next point kind of flows into
the previous point that I made I
Want to look at verse number 13?
The Bible says till I come
give attendance to reading
to exhortation
to doctrine so the Bible tells us that we should make sure that people are paying attention and
Specifically to the reading you know not only should your child have a Bible in church, but you should try to
encourage them to actually open it to the places and
Actually read the passages as we're going through
The service that's giving attendance unto reading me as the pastor
I'm supposed to encourage you to give attendance under reading and you as the parents
You should be giving attendance under reading to your children. You should make sure that they're paying attention
They're looking at their Bible. They're going into the places of Scripture. You're helping them to find things
You know of course when we do these sword drills
It's not always equal some are a little bit better than others
But you know the more you're showing your kids where places are in the Bible
You're you're showing them things in the Word of God
You're just gonna basically help them to become better with that sword I guarantee
People in this room if you actually were going to give a sword to your child you probably would give them some instruction
You'd probably show them how to use it. You probably wouldn't just want to just hand them a sword and just say have fun
And in the same case you know handing a child a book like this
It probably doesn't make sense that you don't sit down with them show them help them
you know I think even just at home showing them the Bible and
Encouraging the read it is gonna be a really good tip
It's gonna really help them to do a really good job
All right, you guys did really good. You can take a candy and you go sit back down
I'll just sit right here. You just come by and get it. I need a new ten volunteers from this section right here, right?
One two three come on down when I get you when I call you three four five six come on John
seven
All right eight nine
Yep urbanic
Morgan you want to come on down all right right here. Yep
Really all you have to do is bribe them with candy. That's you know. I'm just I'm just trying to help you
Okay, but all right, so y'all are gonna pay attention and be still right
Okay, I'm believing. I'm trusting you guys over there
Alright, let's go to Psalm 150
I want to go to another place in the Bible so point one was I think we should encourage our kids to have a Bible
Number two is I think that we should also encourage our kids
To make sure that they're trying to follow along in the sermon and and reading the passages when they can of course
That's gonna depend. You know if you got a teenager over there. They can read it
Okay, you probably should give them the elbow or give them whatever you need to give them right make sure that they're paying attention
And
Sometimes we need a little nod we sometimes we need a little nudge now some of you dads out there
Y'all just take a nap during the service and so it doesn't really help so if you'd actually you know stay awake
You might could nudge your kids every once in a while when they need a little bit of love right Psalm
150 look at verse number six
the last
The last verse in the entire book of Psalms
Let everything that hath breast praise the Lord
Praise you the Lord
We need to make sure that we're encouraging our children to sing and look
I think our church is really good on this
But I think we should also try to make sure that we're encouraging our kids to sing we open the hymnal
We show them the words and of course you know as they graduate get older
They can notice more try and encourage them to be able to sing the songs and sing aloud and sing with us
And you know that'll get a little bit of that energy out
You know you're nervous about all this energy
They have bundled up
You know get them to sing the sound sing the song sing loud get a little bit of energy out
So then they can calm down later and pay attention to
The sermon I think that that's going to help them I
Want to go to another verse go to Proverbs chapter 22, so we're pretty close Proverbs chapter 22
It's point one have a Bible point to
Read and pay attention
Point three is sing the songs
Point four is
That all the things that I'm pointing out can be taught at home look at Proverbs 22 verse 6 the Bible says
Train up a child in the way you should go and when he is old he will not
Depart from it. You know I think it's really important that we train our children
And this could be this is a broad text that covers a bunch of different things
But think about it if you're taking your kid to church regularly
Getting a Bible in their hand you're showing them where to turn the Bible you're getting this seeing the Psalms and the hymns
Generally speaking they're gonna probably stick with that obviously there's always exceptions of this
You know when you train your kid to treat church with respect
And they have the Bible and they're reading the Bible and they know their Bible
You know I believe that's gonna stick with them. I've been in church my whole life
But I think it's also because I've been in church my whole life
My parents always took me to church. They always encouraged me to read the Bible
They always encouraged me to do these things and so for me growing up going to church was not really an option mentally
It was just where right I wasn't know so much like I'm not should I go to church
It was more like where should I go to church was the was really the question in my mind because I've always gone to church
And you know it's like if you always eat chili without beans. It's not a question of if I put beans in it
It's just you know when you have chili. You're not gonna put beans in it, right
I mean, it's so it's just like when you start training your child in a certain way
You know once you teach them how to make Texas brisket
They're not gonna make Oklahoma brisket, okay?
They're not gonna make North Carolina brisket, okay, they're not gonna make all these other things
You know once they've had Tex Mex they're not making the authentic, okay?
And you're like what's the difference between Tex Mex and authentic Mexican food
I'll explain it to you cheese like I mean, that's basically the difference. It's like basically Tex Mex
They actually put cheese on it, and it's just like wow
This is a good idea like this actually or they put a little extra spices or something on it, right?
But you know what I love Tex Mex now. I'm not against Mexican food
It's just Tex Mex a little better, and then once you train up them in this way. They're not gonna depart from it
They're like I love Texas brisket. I love Tex Mex. I love chili without beans right once you train them to use the King James Bible
They're not going to the NIV
Hey once you train them to be in a fundamental Baptist Church. They're not gonna go to Joel's team
There you know obviously there could be an exception
But I'm just saying generally speaking the kids that are gonna keep serving God are gonna
Go to a church kind of like this
They're gonna go to a church that actually cares about the Bible's fundamental and so it's important that
We teach and train our kids the things that are necessary, and you know what at home. You can teach them to be still still
to be quiet
to listen and
It shouldn't be that you never trained this this should be something that's happening
You know one especially your homeschooling in public school
They're taught to sit still and to be quiet during class and they get in trouble if they don't
And you know I think that there should be some of that at home as well
There should be times where they're sitting still being quiet
You know we try to do family Bible time at home
My wife has them sit down sometimes just watch a sermon watch a show or watch something sometimes
They have to sit and read books quietly for a little while
But they should have some time where they're learning some of these same skills at home, and that will help you
You know it's frustrating to go to a restaurant and your kids are terrible
It's nice, and they can just sit quietly and especially when you have a lot. I mean I'm racking them up
I already got six okay, and you know it's nice to still be able to go to a restaurant and talk with my wife
And not just constantly like Johnny did this Johnny did that Johnny spilled this Johnny
And so you know the more and more you train them the more and more you spend time with them
The better your life's gonna be okay the more enjoyable
You're going to have with them
And I think that's gonna help us even in church if you guys are doing some training at home
If you guys are trying to encourage your kids to behave well and home
Then we're gonna have a better church service in general right all right kids. You did really good
You can come get a piece of candy, and you can sit down all right look at this all
I have to do is bribe them with a Snickers. Okay. It's not even a full Snickers all right
They don't even know the difference
Now I
Need another ten. I don't I didn't get everybody over here all right come on down one two three four five six seven eight
Nine come on Gideon come on Morgan. I think that's ten
Yeah
All right you got to remember the rules though right you got a sick sit still be quiet
Pay attention if you got your Bible make sure you're turning where you're going
Let's go to Proverbs chapter 13 now go to Proverbs chapter number 13
So if we're gonna suffer the little children
We want to make sure that we're also encouraging them and and getting the best out of now
Here's the thing in a church like ours. We should be realistic
It's never gonna be as quiet as drop. You know dropping a pin and hearing it drop
Okay, you're never gonna. Have it be perfect kids sometimes make disruptions in the service
You know my general philosophy is that as long as the parents are trying to fix or correct that situation right away
Then I'm gonna go ahead and hey no no just pick one go
Thank you as long as the parents are fixing the situation
So they say something
But if a kid we're making a disturbance
And it wasn't really changing it and everybody's paying attention
Then I might have to kindly just ask them to hey Lee do you mind just please stepping out?
I'm not mad at the person
I don't even care
but it's just if everybody's paying attention to that then I kind of have to as the as the preacher just
Make note of it so we can all focus back on the Bible so again
I've almost never done that it's pretty rare, but if I have to I will but at the end of the day
The better we do as parents and the better as we do as
Christians with our children the less we even have to worry about that
You know it's it's if we were to go to almost any other church
And they brought all of their kids in the sanctuary. Do you know it would be like a quiet roar?
Okay, it would be probably kind of a train wreck
And so you know we kind of have to also realize that we're already doing really well
And so I don't want you to feel don't be discouraged that your kids aren't perfect in our services because frankly speaking
We're already so separated from what most people are like that you should give yourself a little bit of a break in fact
It's like me and my wife are constantly like nervous about our kids behavior, but then the world is just always like man
They're so well behaved, and we're kind of thinking like whatever
You know like they're getting it when they get home. You know it's like
Like but just to them it's just like so much different and again
I'm not saying let's lower expectations
But I'm also saying you know give your kids a little bit of a break realize
They're not perfect we want to you know we want to make sure we give them some grace
But at the same time when necessary they also need that correction. They also need to get it from home
What does the Bible say in Proverbs chapter 13 verse 24?
He
That spared his rod
Hated his son, but he that loveth him chased them with him at times
If you want your children to behave well in church you must discipline them physically
I mean in the Bible even says if you don't you don't even love your child the Bible doesn't say that if you
Refrain from physical discipline you love your child. It says that you hate them
Physical discipline is actually a sign of love and according to the Bible you cannot love your son without
Physically disciplining him and of course you know when it comes to children's discipline of course
The boys and girls may be a little bit different of course as their ages go it may evolve obviously
And so that's something that's to everyone's own discretion
But the reality is the Bible is emphasizing the importance of physical discipline go if you would do Proverbs
22 let's look at another place
and
If we were to just look in the world today
Our world is filled with a bunch of brats, okay?
Blm
Antifa
Black Lives Matter
Liberals leftist feminists all these weirdos, and you know what they didn't get what this verse is about to tell us
They didn't get what they needed according to this verse. What does it say in Proverbs 22 verse 15?
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child
But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him so according the Bible where every child is born as
someone that has a lot of foolishness and the only thing that'll drive it from them is the rod of correction and so
Unfortunately we have a society filled with fools
Because they never had the foolishness driven away from them by
Loving parents who are willing to discipline their children, and you know this world
Does not like that doctrine at all in fact the vast majority of America would say that any physical discipline is abuse
And that's just ridiculous
And you know that's not what the Bible says the Bible has pretty much a complete different response to that particular situation
And you know don't shy away from
physical discipline
Because of what the world may say or what you think do whatever the Bible says because the Bible is always right and the Word
Of God we sometimes we have to quench the fiery darts of the wicked with the shield of faith
And you know what the faith is trusting what the Bible says and believing and the Bible always give you the best outcome
Period we never know what will happen you know the Bible says chasing my son while there's hope it doesn't say there's a guarantee
There's only hope
But at the end of the day if you want the best potential outcome for your child
We need to exercise physical discipline go if you would to
1st Corinthians 5 1st Corinthians chapter 5 so you guys did good. That was a long point all right
We all are still doing strong all right
It's 0.1
Have a Bible 0.2 read the read the Bible pay attention 0.3 sing the songs 0.4 train at home 0.5
We need to use the rod
0.6 1st Corinthians chapter number 15 I want to look at
Our verse you know what?
Verse
58 therefore my beloved brethren be steadfast
Unmovable always abounding the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain Lord
It's a lot of a lot of ways we could apply this verse
This is the way I want to apply this is that if you want your children to be well-behaved in church
You need to be steadfast
And what does that mean you need to be regularly attending without missing, and you know I'm preaching the choir
It's Sunday night
You know what the children that come Wednesday night Sunday morning and Sunday night are usually going to be the best-behaved
And they're consistent. They're always in church. They're not missing they get that regular routine that regular practice
They know what to expect whereas children that come maybe once a month come every once in a while. Just come sparingly
They're usually not as
Practice they're not as disciplined in that area
And so they're not going to be as well-behaved
And if we want to have a great church with great children that we can model to the world well
You know what we need to be steadfast, and that is going to help us with our
Children and suffering the little children go if you had a second Timothy chapter 1
Not only does that extend to just simply going to church
But just being a good Christian the better you are as a Christian and the better you model your faith the more
That your children can follow in your footsteps
of course we could we could basically just let the Bible fall open and
Recognize that even the greatest men in the Bible not all of their children turned out well
But at the end of the day when we look at the admonitions in the Bible
We see that many people did follow in their parents footsteps and one of the coolest stories in the Bible is I think
Second Timothy chapter 1 because it's not even someone following in the footsteps of their father
It's actually someone following the footsteps of their mother and their grandmother the Bible says in second Timothy
chapter 1 look at verse number 4
Paul says greatly desiring to see thee being mindful of thy tears that it may be filled with joy when I call the remembrance the
unfeigned faith
That is in thee which dwelt first my grandmother Lois and my mother Eunice
And I am persuaded that in thee also so Timothy is commended for his unfeigned faith
And additionally how he noticed that was in your mother, and it was in your grandmother, and we can see a lineage of
Faith being passed down from one generation to the next and then to the next now
What's crazy is the men aren't even mentioned, and you know I think that some people don't realize that
Unfortunately not every married couple is always equally yoked
Sometimes the husband's really spiritual and the wife's not very spiritual sometimes the wife's really spiritual
And the husband's not very spiritual
But you know what you as a parent if even if you're a little bit more zealous
Try your best to pass that on to your children and of course them to pass it on and notice it went from
The grandmother to the mother all the way unto the young child, and you know we need to encourage our children
To follow in our footsteps as best as we can and you children
You should look to the zeal of your parents to follow in their footsteps
Because this is a very important thing and if we want to suffer the little children
We want it to you know have the best outcome that it can all right you guys did good
You can get a piece of candy
I've got one more point so anybody that didn't get to and wants to come sit down come on down
And it's this section and anybody else
Good job
You kids are great. I don't know what your parents have been saying
Y'all are really well behaved all right. We've got one more point. Okay. Let's go to Proverbs chapter 21 go to Proverbs chapter 21
So I think if we want to encourage our children to do really well in service number one
We should make sure they have a Bible number two we should help encourage them to pay attention by reading it number three
We should encourage them to sing the songs number four we should be training them at home to be behaved and sit still
Number five we should be using the rod when they do have a problem when they're not obeying and that should be regularly
It's not just a church. It should be on a regular occurrence, and you know I
Don't know what the occurrence is because it just depends on the child
You know sometimes there's kids in my house that it just goes consecutive days, or they're getting physically disciplined
I mean, it's just Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
And then sometimes there's many days in a row where they go where they haven't been physically disciplined
Just kind of depends on them. It just kind of depends on their behavior, and how well they're doing
So there's going to be times when it's hard sometimes when it's easy and everything in between and all the different kids are different
Their ages are different, but of course we want to make sure that we discipline them when they need it because otherwise
You just don't love your children. I
mean the Bible is really clear on that particular issue and
I want to show you one more point here, but I said also be steadfast, but I want to show you one more idea is
to not only
Do everything I said, but sometimes you need to just reward them
And I'm proving that point right now
Hey as long as I give them a little reward look how good they are
And you know sometimes we just need to encourage our kids to do right, and they get money
I remember I was five years old
I'm saying money because that's what my dad did all right all right. Here's the thing
I was five years old and my sister was getting married, and so I was supposed to be the ring bearer and
Apparently they hadn't thought of this genius concept of letting the ring bearer just sit down during the wedding
So I was gonna have to stand up there, so I have to stand up there for like a 20 or 30 minute
Service or whatever
You know my weddings are shorter. Okay. You're welcome, but I have to stand up there and my dad said he'd give me
$20 if I could just stand through the entire wedding and be still and and not cause any kind of disruption and
I'll just be honest. I was kind of a wild kid okay, so I was probably one of the hardest kids
Especially at that age in fact in the school. I was so rowdy that basically my mom
I've told the story before but my mom made a deal with me that if I didn't get in trouble at school
She would buy me a happy meal
And you would think that she would go into the poor house, but this almost never happened, okay?
So like there was like a green light a yellow light and a red light and if you got in trouble at all you went
To yellow, and then if you got in trouble again you went to red. I lived in yellow, okay and
Many times went to red it was like it was a rare exception that I went to green and you know
But if I did you know I got a happy meal for that day
And so I was kind of like that but my dad said hey
I know how to fix I know how to fix a situation in this situation is important
You know so he gave me work now. I'm not saying you have to give your kids $20 to come to church, okay?
I'm not I'm not saying that all right, and I'm not even saying you have to give them candy what I am saying
Is that sometimes?
We should not only use a punishment to enforce behavior sometimes we should use a reward as well
Sometimes that can also encourage them
To do the right thing and you know frankly speaking. That's how God is to us, right?
God punishes us for disobeying, but he also rewards us when we do obey
and so he kind of gives us both and
I think that's an important balance that we want to have Proverbs chapter 21 look at verse 14 a
gift in secret
Pacifieth anger and a reward in the bosom strong wrath notice when someone's upset a reward can actually change
That a gift could actually fix those things and could actually appease some kind of strife
Go back if you would to Proverbs chapter number three
Go backwards to Proverbs chapter number three
And I want to look at another verse here
Proverbs chapter 3 look at verse 27 withhold not good from them to whom it is due
When it is in the power of thine hand to do it notice the Bible saying hey when you have the opportunity
To do good when you have something that you could do to bless someone hey, and you have the power don't withhold good
Give them the reward right and and this doesn't just limit ourselves to children this could be in any capacity
Reward your wife men whenever she's doing a good job. Take her on a shopping spree
I would get a lot of Amen's if we had ladies amen okay right now
Take her on a trip
You know go out go go do something fun that she likes to do if she's been doing a really good job
Doing a lot with the kids. You know I mean especially these homeschool moms
Hey once they've gone through a semester
Maybe reward them in some way or maybe help them you know I sometimes will help my wife
Just make dinner or I'll take her out take them out to dinner or do something
And I think that that's a good thing that we should do if you're a boss
It rewards your employees and
You know that's another way to help people to encourage them and to do good on them
You know here in the church. We kind of live by this philosophy
I mean think about it
We do a Bible memory verse and we literally reward the kids every single time in the midweek service that they get a verse
Then you get the entire chapter. There's another reward, and we just are constantly just doling out all kinds of rewards
Prizes we have all kinds of free things and yet our church also exercises discipline doesn't it?
So our church is not just a here's a free car
But we also at the same time seen churches do that okay. It's weird
But then we're also not just only discipline or no discipline. We hate what we have the balance we have the discipline
We have rewards, and I heard someone say this is an old boss
But I kind of like this philosophy because he was a lender he was a banker
but he just said I'm the best person to borrow money from and I'm the worst to not pay back and
It's like you know. I just want to have that same philosophy in the sense that it's like
I'll be your best friend, but I will not be a good enemy unto you and
And the thing is is like hey you follow the rules. It's gonna. Go well you break the rules
It's gonna be dealt with you know what I mean
And I think that's just how we should approach life with our children
We should give them clear boundaries because that's how God is it's like hey you get saved heaven
That's pretty good reward, and you don't hell. That's a pretty bad punishment
I mean God's really extreme and how he deals with things, and you know what God has some severe
Punishments have you ever read Deuteronomy like how God punishes people with madness they eat their own children
You can get incurable diseases like God if he wants to do something to you
He can do it, and he brings the hammer
I mean Jesus Christ made a scourge of small cords and went to the temple and
Drove them all out of there okay
That was the Lord Jesus Christ
But at the same time he also died on the cross for all of their sins
And he gives us the free gift of salvation and not only that he rewards us for the works that we do and when it
Comes to our children we want to make sure that we're encouraging them, and I think all these areas
We don't want just one want to constantly read the Bible, and you know this is not a
Full encompassing list I'm sure there's other tips
But I think here's some pretty good basic ideas that we should give our kids some Bibles when we're in church
We should make them pay attention we encourage them to sing the songs should be training at home
we should be using the rod we should be steadfast and
You know what sometimes we need to give them a reward
And you know I really appreciate you guys for coming to the conference you guys did a really good job
You can come get two pieces of candy since you're at the last ones all right get two pieces of candy and you go sit
down
You know in this in this world the generations have just seemed to be getting worse and worse and worse and
You know it's it's important that we in our own families in our own areas
Try to stop the bleeding in a sense and try to encourage and build up the next generation
Invest in the next generation, and I think it's important that you know we have them in church
We suffer them, and I don't want to get rid of that even if we grew even if we got bigger
I don't want to get to a point where we just start shifting the kids somewhere else because they come become too inconvenient
And you know as a parent you know sometimes you have to suffer the little children too, and the reality is though
You know when you get to the finish line you're going to get a great reward out of you know those children of course
There's always exceptions, but I'm just saying in general
you know God is going to reward us with the work and the labor that we have and
I love children frankly speaking. I love having the kiddos in here. They really encourage me and
And this is what I like about them. They have a lot more energy like they want to sing the songs louder
And they're more excited and sometimes. I think that we need to get the attitude of a child a little bit
You know it'd be nice, and here's what I like about children is they have so much more faith
They depend on their parents and other people for almost everything and they don't even worry about it
They just know like like they're not sitting there like biting their nails like what are we gonna eat dinner tonight?
Or are we gonna? How are we gonna pay bills or how are we gonna do all these things, but you know we as as
God's children
Sometimes we just get all these like nervous attitudes like the children in the wilderness
Where we're just we're just so nervous like well
How's God gonna get us through this one now or did he bring us out in the wilderness to die?
And it's like as many miracles as God has given us and as much as God has delivered us out here
you know we just need to trust God like a little child trusts his parents and
We need to learn from our children. You know this is a children's conference
You know what learn from their example in many ways
learn from their faith learn from their energy learn from their excitement, and you know we our church doesn't really
Cater to little children necessarily most of the time most of the time. It's you know we're preaching a lot of adult subjects
We're preaching really
Really adult topics deep doctrine things that maybe they don't quite fully understand just yet
But I think it's important to have conferences like this every once in a while every once in a while
Give them a little attention
And you know you do that in your own home in your own family make sure that you're giving them some time
giving them some attention as well and that we're all in every area not just church and
The restaurant in our home in our school
Everywhere that we're just gonna suffer the little children all right. Let's go some prayer. Thank giving the father so much for this conference
Thank you so much for these children
Thank you so much for these families. Thank you for
Everyone that it came here in attendance
I pray that you would just encourage us that you would help us to have a childlike faith
That we could just trust in you
I
Pray that we wouldn't discourage the youth but rather we would try to build them up
And we had try to encourage them to serve you and I pray that you would help us to raise a godly generation
To take on such a dark and scary world in Jesus name we pray Amen
Amen
We're gonna do our last song is I'm in the Lord's army and our special handouts if you kiddos want to stand up for the
last song
We'll be marching all right. We'll sing it twice through I'm in the Lord's army
On the verse
I
Yes, sir, I'm in the Lord's army. Yes, sir
Yes, sir
Oh, yes, sir one more time there on the first
Yes, sir
I
God bless you are dismissed
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